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EVERY LADY HER OWN PERFUMER. 
This may at first thought appear too great a work to 
attempt, 
yet, I 
think so 
many of 
th e fair 
readers of 
TheFlo- 
ral Cab¬ 
inet are 
s o true 
lovers of 
nature 
that they 
can hut 
rejoice at 
any re¬ 
course she 
may yield 
for man’s 
pleas ure 
or happi¬ 
ness. One 
may en¬ 
joy, to the 
full, all 
the pleas¬ 
ure of see- 
ing the 
beautiful 
blossoms 
unfolding 
and ri¬ 
pening, 
giving 
out their 
sweetest 
odors, 
then en¬ 
trap these 
very odors 
and make 
them one’s 
own. 
Reading 
the detail 
of the lbl- 
1owing 
process it 
may look 
tedious or 
trouble¬ 
some; but 
I think, if 
tried, will 
p r o v e 
more sim¬ 
ple and 
available 
than at 
first ap¬ 
pears. At 
the season 
when the 
flowers 
are in bloom, obtain a pound of fine lard, melt and 
strain it through a close hair sieve. Allow the liquid, 
as fast as it falls from the sieve, to drop into cold spring 
water; this operation granulates and washes the blood 
and membrane from it. In order to start with a per¬ 
fectly inodorous grease, the melting and granulation 
process may be repeated three or four times, using a 
pinch of salt and a pinch of alum in each water. It 
A Labor of Love. 
is then to be washed five or six times in plain water; 
finally, remelt the fat and cast it into a pan to free it 
from adhering water. 
Now put the clarified fat into the glue pot, or other 
convenient vessel for keeping it warm, and place it in 
such a position near the fire of the greenhouse, or else¬ 
where, that will keep it warm enough to be liquid; 
into the fat throw as many flowers as you can, and 
then let 
them re¬ 
main for 
24 hours. 
At t his 
timestrain 
tlie fat 
from the 
spent flo¬ 
wers and 
add fresh 
ones; re¬ 
peat. this 
operation 
fora week; 
v e expect 
at the last 
straining 
the fat 
will have 
become 
highly 
perfumed, 
and when 
cold, may 
be justly 
termed 
“ pomade 
a la He¬ 
liotrope.” 
To turn 
this po¬ 
made into 
an extract 
fit for the 
handker¬ 
chief, all 
that has 
to be done 
is to cut 
the per¬ 
fumed fat 
into small 
pieces, 
drop it 
into a 
w i de- 
mouthed 
bottle, 
and cover 
it with 
highly 
rectifi ed 
spirits, in 
which it 
must re¬ 
main for 
a wee k. 
W h e n 
strained 
o f f, the 
process 
will be 
complet¬ 
ed. In this manner every flower of the garden may 
be turned into a genuiue extract and perfume which 
money cannot buy. Beppy Stout. 
